Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Darkside's Curse ❯ The Killer Meets His Only Daughter ( Chapter 5 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

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Marik stood there facing Rex for quite some time. He knew that he had heard that name before but where had he heard it? There were so many people he's seen and he couldn't seem to recall who this young man was. Could he have been one of his enemies? Did he stand in his way when he was trying to kill the so called 'Pharaoh' Yami? Wait! Maybe this guy used to work for him as a 'Rare Hunter?'
"Well, what do you want?" Rex yelled angrily, interrupting Marik's thoughts.
The dark one just narrowed his eyes evilly and crossed his arms over his muscularly tannned chest. After about a second or so he let a smirk creep slowly across his once frowning lips.
"Nothing of much importance. It's just that I wasn't expecting to find someone down here in this alley. That's all..." he answered calmly.
"Well then if that's all then get going! I wish to be left alone thank you very much." Rex retorted then turned his head away from the stranger but of course, Marik didn't move. In fact, he didn't even move an inch! Rex soon took notice to this by the striking feeling in his gut...
'Why won't this freak just leave me alone!' Rex couldn't stand the fact that this weirdo was still watching him through darkened eyes so he jerked his head around and clenched both of his fists, glaring flaming daggers at his new found disturbing enemy.
"Didn't you hear me the first time you creep? Get the hell out of here!" Rex shouted towards the stranger angrily.
"And if I don't?" Marik asked with a smirk, noticing that it took no work at all to make this young man furious with him.
"Grrrrrrrrr..." Rex announced through gritted teeth. 'Ohhhhh...I hate it when people do that to me! These psychotic creeps walking all around out here are always asking that stupid question!...which they probably already know the answer to. It just shouldn't be asked!' Rex thought cruely yet furiously, shaking both of his slightly tanned fists.
Marik was quite pleased about where this conversation was heading but, much to his dissapointment, he had to stop. He needed to use Rex to get what he wanted!...and by making Rex furious wasn't going to solve anything at all, but Marik couldn't careless! He found all of this anger that Rex was sending off to be a rather good piece of entertainment.
'Hmmph, well if he does decide to go against me, then I'll just have to kill him" Marik pondered, his sharp eyes glancing down at the cement for a few seconds whilst his hands placed themselves harshly on his hips, 'or torment his pathetic little mind with the horrific power of my millenium rod! Hahahahaha...' Marik thought excitedly, grinning cruely to himself.
"Now listen here weirdo!" Rex shouted, interupting Marik's train of thought. This caused the darkside to look up at him through burning, hatred filled eyes.
"If you don't leave right now I'm going to..." Rex shouted, but was soon rudely cut off by the evil presence in which stood before him in the darkness of this lonesome alley.
"You'll what? Continue to rage on and on about nothing?... grow even more pissed? I can assure you that I don't care. Keep this up if you wish but you'll pay dearly in the end you worthless fool..." Marik answered back harshly, yet surprisingly stayed calm all of the same. He then took his arms and crossed them once more leaving him in his favorite, more relaxed posture in front of the steaming boy.
Rex just stared back at him through wide eyes. 'I will pay what? Is this guy saying that he's going to kill me?..' Rex thought a bit nervously. Well, hey, he was only twenty-six years old and he had hoped to continue on with the rest of his life. Rex didn't want to fall by the hands of a mad psychotic!...if he was going to ever die, he wanted it to be cool or something! He wanted the world to bring up that the famous 'Dino Duelist' had gone away in style!...but that still doesn't mean that he wants to die! Never in a million years...
"Now, I'll make you a little deal." Marik said with a nasty dark gleam in his eyes, "You see, in this deal, you'll get what you want and I'll get what I want. Can you comprehend that?" Marik asked the speechless man evilly, leaving Rex quite shocked afterwards.
"Like hell I can comprehend that!" Rex retorted, his anger now getting to the better of him. "You know what? I honestly don't care anymore! Now go away you moron and don't come back! Like I've said before, I wish to be left alone!" Then he smirked while leaning against the brooked wall, arms crossed once again "Of course you wouldn't understand that now would you. I mean , you're not gone! Am I not correct?" he asked coldly looking over to see Marik's deadly expression shooting right towards him. Rex had made his final decision about how he was going to handle this situation for he hated being bullied!...and by making this newcomer understand the fact that Rex wasn't the type of guy to back down from a fight, he kept this somewhat small conflict up.
'I will teach this guy a lesson or two about who he chooses to bully! Or rather, who he chooses to torment I guess. Ahhh, either way, I can't stand it! I'll make sure that he learns his place here! Oh I will...' Rex thought darkly to himself, letting a devilish smirk creep smoothly across his somewhat charming facial features. Marik only gave the boy a small frown and a slightly raised eyebrow in return.
Then, eventually, he smirked quite evilly at the young, determined man.
"It would be wise if you learned how to control that oversized mouth of yours my boy. You'll get yourself into a load of trouble one day from it..." Marik said as deeply and darkly as he could.
No, he didn't like this kid one bit... in fact, he thought the brat was a royal pain in the neck! But you couldn't say that he didn't enjoy watching this guy's temper get the better of him. Who honestly wouldn't? Scratch that, maybe that runt Yugi wouldn't...
'He is so foolish! Once he figures out that I'm the master of the criminal group known as the 'Rare Hunters' he'll be begging for forgiveness! Of course, I'm not going to give it to him...' he thought coldheartedly, once again letting a smirk form across his tanned face.
The dark ruler's question in the beginning was definitely not the answer! This young man could have never been one of his 'Rare Hunters' at all to begin with! If he had been than he'd never act this way around his past master! He would of known quite well what Marik was capable of...
Marik had made sure that everyone had known of his power!...allowed them to know that he wasn't one to be trifled with.
Rex soon darted back at the stranger with an extremely pointless comeback, "That is it! I am leaving, you hear?" Then after the boy had thought that he made his point quite clear, he was already beginning to walk away. This caused Marik to snap back into the the world of reality, a place in which he hated dearly, and allowed anger to flow up within him once again. Veins even began to start popping out in every direction possible, his teeth grinding menacingly in addition to his physical state! (a/n: disgusting...)
'How dare he just walk away from me like that? He will pay for this!" Marik thought angrily, soon starting to advance on the much shorter boy whilst walking sneekily through the shadows. Then he paused for a second, realization dawning on him automatically.
Then, out of the blue, he retrieved his millenium rod and slid it from his jet black belt across his waist.
'Oh this is too perfect! It's all over for you Rex Raptor...' he thought darkly, gripping the millenium rod tightly in his grasp. Marik then began to make his way towards the duelist ahead of him whilst walking smoothly through the shadows of the dark and gloomy alley.
Once Marik was only about six feet away from his chosen victim, he spoke in a cruel tone, "Leaving so soon boy? Well, I think not..."
Rex turned around quickly and was just about to retort back to this dark stranger but stopped, for he noticed a slight golden glimmer coming from the psycho's right hand. The sun had only shed only some light into that dark alley but it was just enough for Rex to realize that the other man had held a golden dagger in his strong, tanned hand.
His eyes soon widened in fear...
On seeing Rex's expression, Marik smirked darkly to himself and then began to advance on the boy once again, his dark violet cape blowing out behind him in some unknown breeze with his golden rod held out over his head.
"Goodbye." Marik said evilly, jamming the dagger straight into Rex's heart pounding chest.
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'Finally! My second locator card. Just four more to go and I'll be going straight to the finals! Perfect!' Terra thought grinning to herself. This was the first time that she's smiled in years! She was also smiling because she knew her father would be there as well! This made her completely overjoyed that she'd be able to finally duel along side him...
She knew from day one that she would make it into the finals with absolutely no trouble at all! It was only a matter of time before she obtained six of those locator cards...
While making her way towards Yugi's Gameshop she heard a distant scream not too far off. Terra jolted her head quickly in the direction of which the voice was coming from! Someone was being attacked and they needed someones help and fast!
'Oh great... I'm no hero! I'm supposed to be the person who causes the problem. Not the one who stops it. Let someone else help them.' she thought coldly to herself but than stopped automatically to think it over a bit.
'Okay, maybe I should go...oh whatever! I'll just go anyways and see what's up! They had better be a good duelist with a very rare card!' she thought angrily but than soon took off, running straight into the distance.
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Upon reaching her destination, she realized that the scream had come from the dark alley only a couple of feet away! Or so she assumed...
"How convienent! It figures that an attack would be caused in a dark alley! Just my luck...' she thought dissaprovingly as she looked towards it's dark and gloomy entrance. 'The person who came up with the idea of hurting someone in an alley must have had absolutely no sense of imagination.'
Terra just than started taken her steps quite cautiously, making sure that she wasn't going to be heard. If the attacker had heard any noise coming from outside of that alley, they'd be surely to go out and look for their unwanted intruder.
She'd be done for, and she certainly didn't want that! Who would?
The young Ishtar soon came to the edge of one of the brick stone walls and poked her small head around it slowly, soon coming to realize that she couldn't see a darn thing! Well, that was just great...
'Pff, whatever with this nonsense! There's probably no one there anyways! They may have just fallen over or something... pff, who cares?" she thought dissapontedly, beginning to walk off at a slow pace, and then, she heard it!...a maniacal laughter which made her blood run cold.
Terra turned quickly and shot down the alley, whilst not knowing why she didn't just go and get the police in the first place but, she let the subject drop in her mind and continued on her way. In the distance she saw a golden light, highlighting two different men.
Once she noticed what had happened to the shorter looking guy, it completely terrified her, causing her to stop in her very tracks!
There were two dark figures there, one of which was laying on the ground bleeding to death while the other man, who was standing over the dead body with an evil smirk spread across his darkly shadowed face, held an ever so bloody dagger in his right hand!
'Oh my gosh! I have got to get out of here! I have to tell somebody quickly!' thought Terra through widened eyes, taking only a couple of steps backwards before turning around fully on her heel and speeding down the darkened alley, heading towards the light of day which was quite a long distance away to be truthful.
Her mind was going through fifty million places at once to the point where she couldn't even think straight!
Terra was running as fast as she could but suddenly tripped over the curve of the sidewalk, causing her to fall forward harshly onto the rough cement and scrape her left knee quite badly...
'Oh great! Now I bet any amount of money that he had heard that!' she thought worriedly. Never has two old emotions come out in one day for her! She was smiling that day and later on as of now she was almost crying! Terra was never so scared in her entire life! There was a killer only a couple of meters away and she had now just sliced up her knee!...which she couldn't even move and, when she had tried to move, the darn thing hurt her like hell!
'That man back there must have heard me fall! I'm dead meat right now if he did! I know that maniac most likely heard me...' she kept thinking over and over again to herself. Terra knew that this wasn't like her at all to be scared but something about him just freaked her out! She couldn't help it! Just like anyone else would be, she was scared!
She than tried desperately to get up and run for it but every single attempt of hers, in the end, failed miserably! She just fell back down in even more pain!
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Marik had stopped laughing to glance over his right shoulder. He had heard either someone or something scrape themselves against the pavement somewhere nearby. In response Marik, with barely any reluctance, decided to go out and 'investigate' the situation by turning on his heel and heading towards the dark alley's exit.
"Mmmm...I wonder who's been spying on me playing my fun little game? Well, whoever it may be, they'll pay dearly! Even if they weren't spying on me, I'll torture them anyways! Just for the fun of it! Hahahahaha...' he thought coldly, continuing on his way out.
It was still so strange for him to be like this once again! Each day he became more colder, more evil, and dangerously darker...and he loved it!
The last time that he was this evil was back during the very first 'Battle City.' He had caused a lot of damage then! Now, as time progressed, he was beginning to once again enjoy the terrors in which he was causing! With Katie, he had become good.
That was such a sickening word to him! 'Good..'
A terrible word to one who was born as a darkside.
After reaching his destination he looked down to see a young teenage girl with his same sandy colored hair laying helplessly on the ground. 'Hahahahaha! She must have hurt herself quite badly after trying to escape from my clutches. Just my luck.' he smirked evilly. Then, he started to walk around her so that he could be right in front of her.
Once he stood before her, he slammed his right foot on the ground harshly within only a few inches away from the left side of Terra's face so that his presence would be automatically noticed.
Terra's heart started beating like a hundred times per second! She felt like she couldn't breathe! She was down on the ground at the mercy of a psychotic psycho path and there was absolutely nothing she could do but lay there and hope for the best, knowing that things were actually going in for the worst...
"Well, well, well... I knew that I smelled a rat." said Marik coldly, smirking down at his brand new victim that he would soon be able to torment.
His cold voice sent shivers up and down her spine like mad for he seemed so cold, so evil, so... heartless!
It was like there wasn't the slightest bit of good in him! He seemed like pure evil itself!
This man had such a demanding presence as well! He seemed to stand out a lot more than others and, to her, it seemed as if he needed the eyes of every other living creature on him whenever and wherever he went!...even if it was a sense of negative attention. Of course that could of been just because he wore a dark purple cape out in public and his hair was stuck up on end...
"Leave me alone or I'll... I'll... I'll scream!" she shouted with pure rage, but fear ran through her voice as well.
Marik only raised a mere eyebrow to this, "Oh really?" he exclaimed mockingly cocking his head slightly to the side. "And just who will hear you my dear? Everybody's near the center of Domino City! They'd never hear your useless cries of pain kid! Haha..."
Terra knew he was right but, as usual, she didn't want to admit it! She hated admitting to things that she didn't like... especially this!
"Well then I'll try!" she shouted furiously at him.
She hated the way in which he chose to mock her and besides, he kept it up constantly! Not to mention he was enjoying himself tremendously with this so called game of his!...oh how she had hated that dark smirk of his!
Terra started screaming for help but no one seemed to be coming! All the killer ever did in response to her endless screams of fear was to laugh.
Oh yes, he did indeed enjoy this!
Boy, look what he's been missing... how come he had allowed himself to be kept under that curse to keep him good? How... and why?
'What is wrong with this guy? He thinks this is frickin hilarious and it's not!' Terra thought sadly, wishing that she had never come here in the first place! It was already too late to save that guy who had been just recently murdered anyways! So why was she still here?
As Marik continued with all this so called 'fun' of his, Terra just glared dangerously at him. Oh how she hated him right now! Who was this creep anyways...?
She wished that her father was there, for her dad would of just torn this guy apart! Her mother had told her of how strong her father was and Terra had thought that it was utterly amazing as to all of the stories that had been based upon him!
'Why couldn't he be here with me right now?' she wondered, tears slowly making their way down her soft, tan skin. 'Where did he ever go?' she pondered, forgetting that the murderer was still straight in front of her.
However, the madman's mind was off somewhere in space... he had been quite overwhelmed with all the 'excitement' he had received today, which left him laughing insanely towards the now dark clouds.
Marik finally stopped this hysteria though, calming down a bit. He then turned his head and, through the corner of his right eye, glanced back down at the girl to see if he could receive another huge outburst from her pityful form. It didn't happen that way though! When he saw actual tears in her eyes something changed inside of him...
It was quite weird to tell you the truth... he couldn't understand it at all!
Marik glanced down at her suspiciously, wondering why on earth he was feeling this way... and why his attitude toward everything in the world had made a drastic turn.
Strangely, he didn't want to hurt her anymore. He felt like he was hurting someone really close to him! Someone who was just like him in almost every way! Why her though? That didn't make any sense once so ever. They weren't related! Were they...?
Marik looked down again at the weak girl, looking more closely at her features. But this time, with actual care and wonder in his eyes. 'What was her name?' he thought curiously. She moved a bit, probably planning to argue with him again and make an attempt to escape... however, Marik didn't care, he knew she was too weak and helpless to do much of anything anways. Though he did kneel down to her level and lift her chin up gently with his right palm so he could see into her eyes. They were a dark violet just like his.
This young girl also had the same skin tone as he did! Well, maybe just a little lighter, but it was sure close...
'What does he think he's doing?' Terra thought curiously, still trembling under his gaze. 'Why was he acting so crazy one minute and then so calm the next?...maybe he just has some strange mood swings.' Terra pondered some more, soon shrugging it off. Why should she care of what his thought process was like?!... she needed to be more focused on how she was going to high-tail it out of there!... but strangely, Terra still didn't think much over the choice of 'running' even though she knew that 'was' the smart idea.
However, she was now actually felt quite protected in his presence! She wasn't scared of him anymore! It was weird...
Marik stood there, not taking his violet eyes off her once, pondering on what he should do now with the girl. He finally made his decision to have one of his 'Rare Hunters' catch a taxi cab for her and take her home. He just didn't care about anything at the moment!... probably because he didn't WANT to care and besides, today was a strange day for him. Marik didn't want to think about ANYTHING that took place this specific day! Why should he? He was soon going to become the supreme ruler of this world by destroying the pharaoh in this here tournamant anyways! Soon, nobody would be able to stop him! No one...
After his 'Rare Hunter', by the name of Chris, picked up the teenaged girl, Marik went back to his old heartless ways... leaving the past occurances behind the best he could.
'I'm just going to pretend that this never happened! I never started to care about someone ever! The girl is gone now and I can go kill that bad excuse for a pharaoh without any problems once so ever! Hahahahaha...' he grinned evilly.
Little did he know that 'she' was his daughter and that 'she' was going to play a huge key role in his life that would change him forever.
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Ch ris arrived at Terra's house, or rather her apartment buiding, dropping her off. Master Marik had known where she stayed because of his 'Millenium Rod.' He had used it to search through her mind and figure out where she lived. He always finds out things that way.
On entering the building, Chris held up Terra helping her to walk. She was doing better even though it still pained her greatly. She was also weak from all those events that occured today. 'Who was that guy anyway?'
"What room number?" Chris asked the weak girl.
"What? Oh! Yeah, it's on the third floor. Room..." she paused for a moment trying to remember her room number. 'How can I forget! I've always known my number.' Just then Terra remembered it. It struck her like a bolt of lightning. "Room 427"
"Alright." was all he said in reply.
'Ohhhh! He's so cute! And muscular, and tan!...and I'm leaning against his sexy chest,' she thought rather happily but then something soon dawned on her, which quickly turned her smile completely upside down on her young face, 'too bad he's got his frickin shirt still on. He should take it off if he really did care about my health...'
Once arriving at her door he knocked on it three times and waited. It must have been really late in the afternoon because her mom was home. 'Well, now I'm never allowed to go out on my own anymore.' Terra thought dissappointedly.
Her mother answered the door with a look of worry spread across her once happy features. The second she saw her only daughter she opened up her arms to embrace her. Katie was so happy to see that she was alright and that she wasn't kidnapped or anything! Or worse...
Chris had to save the poor girl from her mother's unbreathable hug. That's when two things just dawned on her right then and there.
Her daughter's knee was majorly injured and there was a quite handsome young man right next to her.
Katie quickly shot over to her daughter's side and began to help Chris carry the young teenager over to the couch so that she could finally lay down. 'Thank Goodness! Now I can finally get the chance to just sit back and relax!' Terra thought rather excitedly, as well as pleased.
"Terra," her mother interrupted concernly, "how on earth did you get hurt so badly? Did you fall?...and why didn't you tell me that you two were going out? Terra! Why?" her mother finished quickly, practially shouting at her already embarrassed daughter.
"Mom, first of all, we are not going out! I barely even know him!...and two, I'll explain what happened later! Please mom, I'm truly exausted right now." Terra shouted with frustration. Her kind-hearted mother nodded in agreement though and decided to just let the subject drop for the night. Yet still, she would bring it up tomorrow morning...
'I should of known she'd ask something as stupid as "are you are going out" or something.' Terra lay there thinking with her right hand on her forehead in pure embarrassment. It's a good thing Chris soon left after that not wanting to be an 'inconvienance.' In all truth he had to go back to his master and tell him that everything was taken care of like Marik had asked. 'She shares a very strong resemblence with my master. A really strong resemblence! I wonder if she's related to him. She's pretty too.' Chris thought as he walked back to the yellow coated cab and climbed in.
"Where to this time?" asked the stubborn driver impatiently.
Chris thought for a moment. "Kaiba Corp." the boy answered sternly. He still had another task to complete. He needed to strip Seto Kaiba of his Egyptian God card which he somehow managed to retrieve back. Marik, only two days ago, had asked him personally to hunt down that money bags Kaiba and take it from him. Chris grinned to himself selfishly. 'This will be any interesting hunt. Kaiba doesn't even have a chance! What easy prey...' With that the taxi driver started up the engine and drove off, dissappearing into the darkness of the night.
Meanwhile, Terra was satisfied that her mother didn't bother with asking her any other questions that night. Well actually she did attempt it once again but Terra had told her that she promised to tell her later. Besides, her mother would get all on top of the subject if she was told that some crazy person was hanging around her kid. It would cause over a million more questions and problems! Terra was just way too tired and she had wanted to have a good, peaceful rest without being bothered by her worked up mother. Katie cares for her way too much! Terra just didn't want her mom to freak out and go all mental over it so she decided to remain quiet about this till tommorow.
Thinking back to the events that had taken place earlier with that crazy killer, Terra knew for sure that she never wanted to see that man ever again. What she didn't realize was that the psycho back there was actually the person she had wanted to meet her whole life! Her father.